Almost 20 years ago (!) I opined: "C is the New Assembly", suggesting that we had moved beyond the need to optimize things by writing assembly code. If I wrote the same article today, it might be "Hand-written Code is the New Assembly" https://redsweater.com/blog/278/c-is-the-new-assembly
C Is The New Assembly –

@danielpunkass in time, developers will develop idioms to control the unpredictability of LLMs by precisely specifying what they should do. We can expect these idioms to become standardized over time, and develop special notation and jargon to make the specifications easier to type, modify, and maintain. for efficiency, maybe those specifications can even be directly translated into machine instructions, without involving the overhead of an LLM
@joe @danielpunkass ohh you’re talking about Executable UML